The Udma Cheese Museum is in an old hamam. The bath house in Kozluca Mahallesi, in the Şahinbey district of Gaziantep, was restored by the regional directorate of the Vakıflar and reopened under this name, given over to cheese: the museum follows the whole sequence from the making of it to the form it reaches the table in.
It opened on 15 September 2022, during the fourth GastroAntep festival, as part of the city's effort to present its food heritage abroad. At the opening the municipality announced that the building would also hold a restaurant for demonstrations by well-known chefs and a shop selling cheese.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Gaziantep as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3.2 °C in January to 28.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in January (103 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
